After winning its fifth consecutive Mideast Region title last weekend, Orange High School will send 11 wrestlers on to the NCHSAA state championships that begin Thursday in Greensboro. Chapel Hill finished in fourth place in the regional with 77.5 points and will send four qualifiers onto the three-day championships - Aaron Feinberg (106 pounds), Peter Dreher (138), Roscoe Burnette (160) and Alex Colson (220).

Orange won the regional with 237 points to 165.5 for runner-up Union Pines, while the hosts from Eden Morehead were third with 117.5.

Both CHHS and Orange had all 14 wrestlers survive the first round last Friday night.

Orange is sending regional champions Will Riley (113) pounds, Zach Rimmer at (145) and Jarrel Lea at (195), and regional finalists Jack Twomey-Kozak (132), Anderson Pope (138), David Peters-Logue (152) and J.D. Wynn (160), plus regional semifinalists Martin Carreon (106), Jordan Baker (120), Collin Smith (126) and Wesley Dawson (220).

More honors for Ferguson

Preston Ferguson, the 2011 MVP of the Woods Charter School basketball team, has earned a spot on the honor roll at East Carolina University. Ferguson made the roll his first semester after making greater than a 3.0 grade point average. The son of Vickie and Stan Smith, he is pursuing a Bachelors of Science degree in Social Work and Psychology at ECU.

Parlow Cone to appear at Omega

Dragonfly girlgear will host a meet-and-greet with UNC four-time soccer All-American Cindy Parlow Cone at 7 p.m. Friday at the Omega Sports store in New Hope Commons.

The event is part of Omega's rollout of the Chapel Hill-based line of Dragonfly athletic sport and support wear designed for girls ages 7-17.

Currently the director of girls U15-U18 soccer for Triangle United, Parlow Cone twice won the Hermann Trophy as the nation's best player and was the ACC female athlete of the year in 1999, later playing on the U.S. Olympic and World Cup teams.

For more information, see omegasports.net.